Flash :: ITunes Similar Thumbnail Effect

Fade Video Menu Similar To ITunes
I have created a video player that has a movieclip that contains my video/sound controls such as: forward, rewind, play, pause, video slider, sound slider, timecode, etc. The majority of the controls are movieclips. I have tried multiple ways to fade this menu (movieclip) in and out when the user moves the mouse over it without success. I can get the menu to fade in and out, but the controls will not work. I have tried tween/easing class to no effect as well as the _alpha property. At this point I am at a loss as how to proceed.

[CS3] Itunes Art Screen Saver Effect
Does anyone know where to get code to create a grid of square images like album art and have them randomly flip over one by one to a different image?

exactly like apple's screen saver on the itunes art setting. (not coverflow effect)(not one big image)(not a mosaic of little images making one big image)

I am looking for something with each square being a different image like the mac screen saver where the area is populated with different images at random of cover art and each square rotates horizontally one at a time to reveal a new different image. I'm not looking for a mosaic or one image broken up in squares for a transition. I need to display about 30 different images which will be buttons to view the large image as a pop up or on a different page.

In the sample image, one square is currently flipping but it moves on to every square one at a time at about a rare of one every 3 seconds.

creating for flash site.

Thanks

Itunes Art Screen Saver Effect
does anyone know where to get code to create a grid of square images like album art and have them randomly flip over one by one to a different image?

exactly like apple's screen saver on the itunes art setting. (not coverflow effect)

creating for flash site.

Thanks

Anyone Try To Reproduce The ITunes Album Effect?
iTunes 7 has a cool album effect http://www.apple.com/itunes/jukebox/coverflow.html.

I created the attached but it needs ALOT of work. Didn't know if anyone has seen anyone else that has done this yet.

Cool Effect In Apples Itunes Store
I am sure this is done in flash but i am not 100%, can anyone tell me or show me a link on how to create a similar thing to the movie sorter in iTunes. This is when you log on to the store and in the middle at the top is sorts through the latest movies available.

Can anyone help please,

Neil

Effect Similar To The Mac OS
Hi all, does anyone know how to achieve the effect you get on a mac, for example the bottom menu screen, I think this kind of effect will work well with a project I have on-going, basically I have a footer of logos on a bar designed, and what I would like is to use this effect there.

When the user hovers over the bar the logos get bigger depending where you are on the bar, hope this makes sense, it looks like a cool effect if anyone has had a mac before.

Cheers for any help or direction.

PS - I have seen this done but for the life of me I cannot remember where?

How Can I Come Up With A Similar Effect?
Hi
i would like to come up with a similar effect i have a screen shot of the page.
i would like the image to be in the center and the thumnails at the right side in rectangular shape one under the other and 2 arrows pointing up and down "one of them on top of the thumnails and the other one underneeth of the thumnails pointing downword" for the viewer to scroll down or up the thumnails..
best regards
Mike

Create A Similar Effect Like This One
I need to create a similar effect as in this link I provided. Basically want
movement, a light flash or a little spark every once in a while. Maybe
someone can point me to a similar tutorial or something. My thought is to
have a subtle effect in the background of my site to give it a little flare.

http://www.templatemonster.com/flash-templates/14237.html

How To Achieve A Similar Effect
http://www.mindflood.com/

When you click to enter their site, the brochure unfolds with a nice blur effect. I've seen this seefect used when a site has a square flip along it's X axis with a blur effect.

How did they acieve this effect? Swift 3d? Please don't say they edited each frame with a new image from photoshop...

How Do I Create A Similar Effect To This?
Hi,

I need to do something like this animation here:
http://www.thelondonnyc.com/

Are all the photo's just on different layers, with motion tweens and varying opacity?

It looks familiar, like I've seen this effect before, does anyone know of any tutorials that do something similar or can you let me know.

James

How Am I Able To Create A Similar Effect
Hi all,
im not completely a newbie, bit I ve got a question, that makes me think so. I guess you have all seen the effect on www.2advanced.com. I mean the effect that "preloads" or at least appears between every new sequence. I mean the little box which seems to walk upsairs at the sides. Im very sorry for my english but cant better describe it. Ive tried just to create some boxes at the same positions and then just rotate them, but wont work very well : Has anyone a better idea?
Thx a lot
cu

Effect Similar To Interstitial Ads?
I'd like to know how to present a Flash movie for a predermined time on a web page, then make it disappear completely, similar to how interstitial ads are made.

Here's what I need to do: There's a web template at http://www.templatemonster.com/websi...ates/8884.html that has both a Flash template and a normal web template. I need to somehow integrate the Flash of the baseball pitcher into the html template so that each time the page loads, the movie plays (the pitcher wind-up) and then the regular HTML page displays.

Any pointers on how to do this?

Creating Layout Effect Similar To This...
just wondering if any of you AS gurus could help me out with creating a layout effect similar to the one found here : http://www.effectmaker.com/gallery/f...age/index.html minus the cheesy off-center fireworks launch part. Preferably if there was a box that either slid into the center of just faded in and then expanded into the whole image/page.

any ideas people?...

Creating Similar Effect [MX04]
Hey Flash Guru's,
I have a question. I saw this great effect on http://mediumbold.com/mainStage.html. It is for there navigation with the arrow. I am not sure how to create this effect. I am assuming I can create a mc for each button with on, over, off, and out states

it_mc.onPress = function() {
this.gotoAndPlay("on");
};

etc. I guess what I am asking is how does it give that drag effect from one button to the next. I would love some insight on how it was done. I really want to create a similar effect. I am attaching an example if someone could show me how I would be really appreciate it.

Similar To Magnifying Glass Effect.
I'm looking to do this effect for a portfolio page. It would have two sections, one that has an overview of a page, and the other would display a zoom detail of the page. The mouse would act like the pointer. If anyone has any idea of what I'm talking about and could enlighten me, I would be much obliged.

here is a mock up...

http://studenthome.nku.edu/~wester/ex.jpg

Thanks in advance.

Eric

Creating A Similar Effect On Navigation[MX04]
Hey Flash Guru's,
I have a question. I saw this great effect on http://mediumbold.com/mainStage.html. It is for there navigation with the arrow. I am not sure how to create this effect. I am assuming I can create a mc for each button with on, over, off, and out states

it_mc.onPress = function() {
this.gotoAndPlay("on");
};

etc. I guess what I am asking is how does it give that drag effect from one button to the next. I would love some insight on how it was done. I really want to create a similar effect. I am attaching an example if someone could show me how I would be really appreciate it.

Slide Show Effect Similar To Www.momentumpictures.com
hello everyone,

i would like to create a slideshow effect similar to www.momentumpictures.com. Appreciate if you can teach me how to do so.

Thank you and have a nice day.

Effect Similar To OSX Navigation And Zune Marketplace
Hi all,

I am trying to achieve something between the Mac OSX menu and the main page of the Marketplace in the Zune software which can sort of be seen here.

Basically, a row of thumbnails are shown and when the cursor rolls over one of them, it grows in size aligned to the top while all the others shrink slightly to make way for the active ones extra width. I have managed to do the growing active thumbnail using the code below, but what I am unable to figure out is how to make all the movie clips (thumbnails) - except the active one - shrink in size when one has the mouse over it and stay edge to edge instead of one growing and just being shown at a higher level.

Any advice appreciated.

Regards,
Paul

Attach Code

// ROLLOVER FUNCTION
function doRollOver(mc:MovieClip){
mc.swapDepths(1000);
itemWidth = new mx.transitions.Tween(mc, "_width", Strong.easeInOut, 113, 150, 30, false )
itemHeight = new mx.transitions.Tween(mc, "_height", Strong.easeInOut, 170, 226, 30, false )
}

// ROLLOUT FUNCTION
function doRollOut(mc:MovieClip){
itemWidth = new mx.transitions.Tween(mc, "_width", Strong.easeInOut, 150, 113, 30, false )
itemHeight = new mx.transitions.Tween(mc, "_height", Strong.easeInOut, 226, 170, 30, false )
}

Drag + Rollover Effect Similar To Windows Explorer
Hello all,

I was hoping to pick some brains here. Supposing you're in Windows Explorer (in WinXP that is), and you drag a file and hold it over the folder you're going to drop it into. Now, when you're holding it over the folder, the folder highlights.

How can I recreate this effect in Flash MX?

I have a "tile" movieclip, and a "container" movieclip. The tile is meant to be dragged into the container. In the situation where the tile is being dragged and held over the container (ie, mouse button has not been released), the container is meant to change colour.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

Help On Creating A Similar Matrix Text Effect Outputting DNA Sequences
DNA Matrix Text Effect
Hey!! i'm kinda new to actionscripting for flash and I wonder if there is a way to make a flash that is similiar to the matrix text effect. Rather than outputting random numbers and letters, it will output only A,T,C,G randomly. Please help out. Here's the matrix code I've found on the net...Please help...thx ^^

Stage.scaleMode = "noScale";

var stageWidth = 500;
var fp = Function.prototype;

fp.setInterval = function(obj, ms, params) {
return setInterval(function(fcn) {
fcn.apply(obj, params);
}, ms, this);
};

fp.createDerivedMC = function(timeline, name, level) {
var mcp = MovieClip.prototype;
MovieClip.prototype = this.prototype;
var newmc = timeline.createEmptyMovieClip(name, level);
MovieClip.prototype = mcp;
this.apply(newmc, arguments.slice(3));
return newmc;
};

delete fp;

TextField.prototype.writeln = function(tx) {
this.text += tx + "
";
};

var o = _global.MatrixLetters = function(v) {
this.v = v;
this.t = getTimer();
};

o = o.prototype = new MovieClip();

o.onEnterFrame = function() {
this._y += 5 * this.v;
if(getTimer() >= (this.t+2000)) this.removeMovieClip();
};

var letters = [], vel, letter = 0;
for(var i = 36; i-- letters.unshift(i.toString(36));

var mc, tf, generator = function() {
vel = Math.floor(Math.random()*20);
mc = MatrixLetters.createDerivedMC(this, "l" + letter, letter++, vel);
mc._x = Math.floor(Math.random()*stageWidth);
mc.createTextField("letters", 0, 0, 0, 0, 0);
(tf = mc.letters).setNewTextFormat(
new TextFormat("Courier New", 12, 0x00FF00)
);
tf.autoSize = true;
for(var i = random(10)+10; i-- {
tf.writeln(letters[random(letters.length)]);
};
};

generator.setInterval(this, 100);

Writing Similar Functions For Similar Buttons
there must be more efficient way of achieving the same thing as this code does:

Code:
themaHolder1.themaButton.onRelease = function () {
_root.changeThema(1);
}
themaHolder2.themaButton.onRelease = function () {
_root.changeThema(2);
}
themaHolder3.themaButton.onRelease = function () {
_root.changeThema(3);
}
themaHolder4.themaButton.onRelease = function () {
_root.changeThema(4);
}
themaHolder5.themaButton.onRelease = function () {
_root.changeThema(5);
}
but im feeling very dim, could anyone post an example?

Thumbnail Effect
check out the thumbnails...any ideas how to to achieve the preloader(the white square) effect? i i'm sure there is a thread on this topic somewhere. ..

thanks guys =|

http://www.crescentcourt.com/gallery.cfm

How Was This Thumbnail Effect Was Done?
I remember seing this thumbnail effect done before but just can' find the tutorial (the thumbnails on top)

http://www.minus.dk/

any help please....

Hope you people don't get annoy of me posting this silly questions.

thanks

Thumbnail Effect
Hello,

this is alitle hard to explain (im really bad at explaining) but I hope you get the picture.

What I want to do, is have a lot of thumbnails, each with different picture and tooltip on them (so, if it is on my portfolio, each will me a website I have done, and the tool tip will say the company name).

Anyway, What I want, is for when you roll over one of them, it expands, and then pushes all of the other thumbnails (because, if they are all the same distance around it, when it expands, all the other ones have to move away to give it room, get what I mean?)

Ive seen it doen before, I just cant find an example,

Anyway, I hope you understood me

Thanks in advanced,

Giles

Thumbnail Effect
ok, ever seen the sites that when you click on a picture, everything else fades to a transparent black? I tried achieveing the effect but I ran into a problem.

I have three buttons and a black box with about 85% opacity (visible = false) on layer 1. What i click on a button, that button becomes a higher index than the others. Then, the black box gets set to visible and covers the stage EXCEPT the button I clicked. Then, a back button appears.

Here is my problem, when i go back and click a different button, the first one i clicked is still higher in the index so both boxes stick through... Is there a way I can set the button that is showing back to an index of -1?

Its hard to explain so i attached the swf and the code:

Code:

import flash.display.SimpleButton;

graybox.visible = false;
back_btn.visible = false;

btn1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, doit);
btn2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, doit);
btn3.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, doit);
back_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, go);

function doit(e:MouseEvent):void {
graybox.visible =true;
setChildIndex(DisplayObject(e.target),numChildren - 1);
back_btn.visible = true;
}

function go(e:MouseEvent):void {
graybox.visible = false;
back_btn.visible = false;
}

Help With This Thumbnail Scrolling Effect?
Hi!

I've attached a file that lays out in simple fashion what I want to do: create a vertical scroller that scrolls through a list of 5+ buttons. The effect would be very similar to FlashLoaded's ThumbNailer. But the Thumbnailer doesn't support PNG files, and ultimately that is what I need to use.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers,
JS

Thumbnail To FullSize Image Effect
Hello Flashers!

I want to have four images below each other on the left of the stage, these would be small thumbnails and might will include bmp's and also swf's with 3d in them.

I'd like to ActionScript a function so someone can click on the thumbnail and it opens the image to the right of the list. The effect i'd like it to have the image zoom out, into the space, from the thumbnail.

I haven't started yet - does anyone have any tips??

Thanks for your help.

SFilter

Thumbnail Buttons In Transition Effect Ga;;ery
Hello,
I have used the attached code to apply transition effects to a JPEG This code works great but when I try to install thumbnail buttons using loadclip or loadmovie the JPEG loads with out the effect or doesn't load at all. What can I do to get my thumbnails to load JPEG's with transitions when clicked?
Thanks,
WonderWendy

Attach Code

import mx.transitions.*;
import mx.transitions.easing;

this.createEmptyMovieClip("image_mc", this.getNextHighestDepth());
var mclListener:Object = new Object();
mclListener.onLoadStart = function(target_mc:MovieClip) {
//do something
};
mclListener.onLoadComplete = function(target_mc:MovieClip) {
//do something
};
mclListener.onLoadInit = function(target_mc:MovieClip) {
TransitionManager.start(target_mc,
{type:Blinds, direction:Transition.IN,
duration:2, easing:None.easeNone,
numStrips:10, dimension:0});
};
var image_mcl:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
image_mcl.addListener(mclListener);
image_mcl.loadClip("http://www.helpexamples.com/flash/images/image1.jpg", image_mc);

An Effect Similar To "Fade Image" In Fireworks
I need to figure out how to create an effect in Flash that is similar to the effect "fade image" in fireworks. I know that I can "break" text and then edit it with a gradient. But my main goal here is to be able to keep the text editable! Maybe using a sort of mask? Let me know if you have any solutions to this! Thank you!

XML Thumbnail Gallery/ Complex Rollover Button Effect
Hi everybody, this is my first time posting. I've been working on the XML Thumbnail gallery tutorial posted up and I wanted to know if it's possible to make a complex rollover effect on an xml button? For example I would like to make this character { rotated 180 degrees above the button as a person highlights the button. How would I go about that.

Also can i add a shadow background to the button?

Thanks in advance

'Highlight'/'rollover' Effect For Thumbnail Image Loaded Into Flash?
Hello,

I load my thumbnail into flash this way:

Code:
material.holder.loadMovie("material.png")
material.holder._xscale = 75;
material.holder._yscale = 75;
how can i make it so when the user rollsover the image loaded, it darkens to appear highlighted?

Is this possible with actionscript?

Itunes Interferance
when i am doing anything in flash such as moving a MC or resizing an image (mainly graphically bassed things) it makes my music (on itunes)crackle and it gets worse and worse. when i pause the song and play it again its fine until i start doing stuff on flash. its fine with WMP. has anyone else had this problem? im on XP pro and have MX2004 Pro.

Flash ITunes
I made a Flash music player (similar to iTunes in functionality) a while back, and just recently added a few more features to it: playlists, speaker focusing, stuff like that.

It only has one major drawback: you have to type everything in. When you first open it, you have to type in the location of your music folder, and you have to type in different song names when you add them.

BUT...once you do that, it's really easy and fun to use.

The code and stuff used to make it is really complicated, so I'm not going to post it UNLESS someone shows interest in it.

Let me know what you think.

http://www.freewebs.com/kingofgoldoa/tunes_win.zip

A couple notes on using it:Songs must be in ".mp3" format for the app to load it
Hold control and click on a song, then, still holding control, click on another to swap them.
Hold delete and click on a song to delete it.
Click "add" in the bottom left corner to add playlists.
With playlists, hold down the corresponding number and click on a song from the library to add it to the playlist

ITunes Like Functionality
Hi there!

I looked through the tutorials and didn't find anything quite like what I'm looking for.

I'm creating a site for a musician, who has about 5 CDs. I would like to create something similar (without the table look) to what iTunes (the program) has when you view your music with the actual CD cover. Below the selected CD cover, I would have the track listings, and audio buttons for people to hear snippets of the music. When you click to the next CD image to the right, the former image would slide to the left and the next image takes the center position, and the same thing would happen, with the track listings below...etc.

Has anyone done anything like this? Any suggestions? Or could you steer me in the right direction to try and learn this stuff.

Thanks a bunch (in advance).

Itunes Coverflow Help
am looking for some help with the very popular iTunes coverflow code created by Stephen Weber. http://www.weberdesignlabs.com/blog/?p=11

I need to set this itunes cover flow over a pattern and becasue the reflection is created with a solid gradient, as opposed to a transparent mask the original code will not work.

Anyone familiar with this script? If so do you have some knowledge on how the reflections are created? It looks like the gradient_mc is created with a loop. I would like to make that gradient_mc a mask using he .setMask property but I am not sure where to place the command and how to apply it to the reflections.

I see in the script that the reflection are also created with a loop. I cannot tell if the gradient is created after the reflection and if so how can I integrate that .setMask into the loop?

Any help would be very much appreciated.

jb

Itunes MP3 Player
I wanted to create an MP3 player that the end user can upload the music files directly from their Itunes library. I didn't know if anyone has seen any tutorials or completed this task themselves. I have seen some variations using flex but I do not know flex that well at all. Any help on this subject would be great.
Thanks in advance.

Linking From Flash To ITunes...
Hi, my Flash website sells a CD of songs, and I'd like to link to iTunes. iTunes supplied me with the following code which supposedly points to a deep link within the iTunes Music Store. Apple says:

"When a user clicks on it, iTunes will open and navigate to the correct page. The iTunes badge graphic is included with the code and resides on Apple's servers; If iTunes is not present, the link will automatically take the user to an iTunes download page."

Is this code, below, modifiable for use on my own button (without using the iTunes logo link):

<a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?s=143441&playListId=76976545&s=143441">
<img height="15" width="61" alt="If Right Now Played Guitar" src="http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/images/badgeitunes61x15dark.gif">
</a>

Thanks,
-Todd Lerner
http://www.SongForFree.com

ITunes Link From Flash
Hi,

My flash website is for my CD of songs, and I want to link one of my buttons to my CD listing on iTunes, but I don't want to use the iTunes graphic. How do I go about doing this? The code that Apple supplies for my iTune link is as follows:

<a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?s=143441&playListId=76976545&s=143441">
<img height="15" width="61" alt="If Right Now Played Guitar" src="http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/images/badgeitunes61x15dark.gif">
</a>

Apple's directions are: "The url in the text box on this page points directly to a deep link within the iTunes Music Store. When a user clicks on it, iTunes will open and navigate to the correct page. The iTunes badge graphic is included with the code and resides on Apple's servers; all you have to do is copy and paste. If iTunes is not present, the link will automatically take the user to an iTunes download page."

Thanks,
-Todd Lerner

http://www.SongForFree.com

Launching Itunes In Flash?
How does one go about creating a button with a link that launches Itunes? I'm creating a podcast and would like to create a button that opens up the podcast in Itunes once clicked.

ITunes MPEG-4 ...in Flash?
Hi guys,

Just wondering.. is it possible to take a protected Mpeg4 that I purchased from iTunes and somehow convert it so I can import it into Flash?

Thanks!
CG

Flash Coverflow Like Itunes
is there a way to make a cover flow like in Itunes but using only action script and no XML or PHP or Java or Java script. I would love to have either a link to where one exists or for someone to make a simple one for me to work with.

Thanks

Flash For Itunes/Ipod
Hi,
I create Flash8 then save as Flash5 Quicktime.
I open Quicktime and the animation and audio works fine.
Then I export from Quicktime to Ipod (m4v) and the animation works but there is NO audio.
Also there is no audio when I publish on Itunes podcasts.
Appreciate any help as Flash on an Ipod is really cool.
I build tech tutorials and they look good on the Ipod, but where's the audio.
Cheers,
Tom Cross
www.techtionary.com

Itunes Ad Burst Out Of Frame
The new iTunes iPod flash ad running in the past day or two uses a technique I've not seen before, and I'd love to learn how it's done. The dancers in the ad occasionally toss a ball or swing a hand or foot outside the frame of the ad, allowing the silhouette characters in the ad momentarily dance in front of the adjacent editorial content on the page. Right clicking the ad offers the option to "show redraw zone" which reveals a red hairline that shows the area on screen where this frame bursting occurs. You can see an example on the Pitchfork homepage. See Pitchfork media (You may need to reload a couple of times to get the iTunes ad.)

Anyone know more about how to do this?

ITunes Similar Thumbnail Effect

Can any one recomend a tutorial or provide my with a rough example of thumbnail scroller similar to the one in iTunes.Thanks

Can any one recomend a tutorial or provide my with a rough example of thumbnail scroller similar to the one in iTunes.

Thanks